#world war

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#civil war #forward #history #ii #non

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#coast #during #exclusion #executive #february

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#borrow #cold #cold war #during #faced

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#millions #second #second world war #tens #victims

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#few #how #millions #nameless #numbers

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. ↗

— John Edward Christopher Hill

#believing #going #i #killed #man

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#battle #fought #hard #i #like

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#among #away #europe #happened #ii

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#collapse #did #estates #ii #major